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This manual introduces the Quantum F2000 and includes the following
information:
• System description
• Component overviews
• Basic operations
• Customer replaceable unit (CRU) instructions
AudienceThis manual is written for F2000:
•System users
• System administrators
Preface
• Field Service Engineers
PrerequisitesPrerequisites for using this product include knowledge of:
• StorNext administration
• Network administration
• SAN management
• Fibre Channel and Ethernet protocols
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Preface
Document OrganizationThe following is a brief description of chapter contents:
• Chapter 1, F2000 System Description provides an overview of the
F2000 and its components.
• Chapter 2, F2000 Component Overviews provides a high-level
overview of system components.
• Chapter 3, F2000 Basic Operations provides instructions on how to
perform basic tasks, such as log into the BMC Web UI, access and
download logs, power off/on system canisters, and locate the
system serial number.
• Chapter 4, F2000 Customer Replaceable Units (CRUs) provides
removal and installation procedures for CRUs.
• Glossary
Notational ConventionsThis manual uses the following conventions:
ConventionExample
User input is shown in bold font../DARTinstall
Computer output and command
line examples are shown in
monospace font.
User input variables are enclosed in
angle brackets.
For UNIX and Linux commands, the
command prompt is implied.
./DARTinstall
http://<ip_address>/cgi-bin/
stats
./DARTinstall
is the same as
# ./DARTinstall
File and directory names, menu
commands, button names, and
window names are shown in bold
font.
Menu names separated by arrows
indicate a sequence of menus to be
navigated.
/data/upload
Utilities > Firmware
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Note: Note emphasizes important information related to the main
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Caution: Caution indicates potential hazards to equipment or data.
WARNING: Warning indicates potential hazards to personal safety.
• Right side of the system — Refers to the right side as you face the
component being described.
• Left side of the system — Refers to the left side as you face the
component being described.
Product Safety
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Quantum will not be held liable for damage arising from unauthorized
use of the product. The user assumes all risk in this aspect.
This unit is engineered and manufactured to meet all safety and
regulatory requirements. Be aware that improper use may result in
bodily injury, damage to the equipment, or interference with other
equipment.
WARNING: Before operating this product, read all instructions and
warnings in this document and in the system, safety, and
regulatory guide.
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Related DocumentsThe following Quantum documents are also available for F2000
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6-68748-01
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F2000 Release Notes
F2000 Quick Start
F2000 Site Planning
Guide
F2000 Installation
Guide
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information, known
issues, and latebreaking information
not included in
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documentation
Describes how to
quickly get your
F2000 up and
running
Contains site
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for the F2000
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This chapter provides an overview of the Quantum F2000 array and its
components and includes the following sections:
• Product Overview on page 2
• F2000 in a StorNext Shared Storage Environment on page 3
• Quantum Cloud Storage Platform on page 4
• F2000 and NVMe Benefits on page 5
• F2000 Hardware Overview on page 7
Quantum F2000 User’s Guide1
Chapter 1: F2000 System Description
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Quantum F2000 is a high-performance, highly available and reliable
storage array designed for studio editing, rendering, and other
performance-intensive workloads for large unstructured data sets.
See Figure 1 for the front view of the F2000.
Figure 1 Quantum F2000 with
Bezel
The F2000 uses Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) flash drives for
ultra-fast reads and writes and to support a huge amount of parallel
processing. In addition, the F2000 uses the latest remote direct memory
access (RDMA) networking technology to provide direct access between
workstations and the NVMe storage devices, to provide predictable,
ultra-fast network performance. Lastly, both the software and hardware
architecture are designed to be highly available.
Relative to traditional solid state drive (SSD) and hard disk drive (HDD)
storage arrays, the F2000 is orders of magnitude faster, enables users to
move from Fibre Channel (FC) SAN infrastructures to Ethernet
infrastructures without giving up performance, and gains back racks of
data center space.
Unlike other NVMe storage arrays, the F2000 was designed specifically
for video and video-like data sets, so it can easily handle the
performance requirements of ultra-high-def content, high-resolution
images, and other forms of unstructured data.
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Chapter 1: F2000 System Description
F2000 in a StorNext Shared Storage Environment
F2000 in a StorNext Shared Storage Environment
With the F2000 in a StorNext shared storage environment, users access
data directly from the storage—either on the SAN or on an IP network—
without the bottlenecks associated with current storage and
networking technologies. The result is dramatically lower, and
predictable, latencies for anyone working in Ultra High Definition (UHD)
and high-frame-rate (HFR) content.
As shown in the Figure 2, client workstations and applications are able
to access the NVMe storage directly through 32 Gb FC, or through 100
GbE using RDMA.
Users can add more NVMe storage by adding more F2000 arrays.
Figure 2 F2000 in a StorNext
Shared Storage Environment
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Chapter 1: F2000 System Description
Quantum Cloud Storage Platform
Quantum Cloud Storage Platform
The Quantum Cloud Storage Platform is the software that powers the
F2000. Quantum’s Cloud Storage Platform is a software-defined storage
platform that was designed specifically for video and other large
unstructured data sets.
The Quantum Cloud Storage Platform is:
• Software-defined: Run on bare metal, in a virtual machine, or in
the cloud. No hardware dependence.
• Highly available: With capabilities that include active/active
clustering, failover, and different forms of data protection.
• Tuned for low latency and fast streaming performance: Because
the Quantum Cloud Storage Platform was built for video and videolike data, we’ve stripped out the data services that don’t apply to
video, making the architecture more efficient and maximizing
streaming performance to the storage.
Figure 3 Quantum Cloud
Storage Platform
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Chapter 1: F2000 System Description
F2000 and NVMe Benefits
F2000 and NVMe Benefits
So What is NVMe?At a high-level, NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) is a
communications standard/protocol developed specially for SSDs by a
consortium of vendors that operates across the PCIe bus (hence the
‘Express’ in the name), which allows the SSD drives to act more like the
fast memory that they are, rather than the hard disks they imitate.
Lighting-Fast
Performance
With the ability to support massive 1000+ node render farms without
data contention, support playout to multiple digital intermediaries from
a single volume, or work effortlessly with uncompressed 8K content, the
F2000 supports all these workflows and more. It does this by taking
advantage of NVMe performance and parallelism.
Designed for the FutureNVMe inherently provides direct access to storage and massive
parallelism to unlock the true performance of flash.
The F2000 also supports RDMA protocols—another networking
technology that reduces network overhead, and provides direct client
access to storage.
For users moving to IP-based workflows and infrastructures, the
combination of these technologies will enable users to future-proof
their infrastructure and accelerate their workflows in the process.
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Chapter 1: F2000 System Description
F2000 and NVMe Benefits
SAS Architecture vs
NVMe Architecture
Figure 4 SAS Architecture vs.
NVMe Architecture
In SAS architecture, all CPU-cores have to go through a single SAS HBA
for storage access, which creates a central bottleneck for all I/O.
With NVMe architecture, there is no central bottleneck for I/O. Every
CPU-core can talk to every device.
Refer to Figure 4 for an example of current SAS architecture compared
to NVMe architecture.
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F2000 Hardware Overview
The F2000 is a 2U, dual-node server with two hot-swappable canisters
and up to 24 dual-ported NVMe drives. Each canister can access all 24
NVMe drives, and each canister includes processing power, memory,
and connectivity specifically designed for the highest performance and
availability.
See Figure 5 for an overview of the main F2000 hardware components.
Figure 5 Main F2000
Components
Chapter 1: F2000 System Description
F2000 Hardware Overview
ItemComponent
1Drive Bay at the front of the system containing 24 NVMe Solid
State Drives (SSDs).
2Redundant power supply units (PSUs) at the rear of the
system. Left PSU is PSU A and the right PSU is PSU B.
3Redundant, hot-swappable canisters at the rear of the
system. This example shows an FC model, with four dual-port
32 Gb FC cards installed.
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Chapter 1: F2000 System Description
F2000 Hardware Overview
CapacityThe F2000 array holds up to 24 dual-ported NVMe SSDs, and is available
in three capacity points:
• 46 TB (24 x 1.92 TB)
• 92 TB (24 x 3.84 TB)
• 184 TB (24 x 7.68 TB)
PowerThe F2000 array contains redundant power supply units (PSUs) and runs
on an input voltage of 200-240VAC and consumes ~2000W under
typical conditions.
Redundant CanistersThe F2000 contains redundant, hot-swappable canisters. Each canister
contains:
• Dual Xeon 6140 CPUs, 2.3 GHz, 18 C, 140 W
• 4 x 32 GB ECC RDIMM, DDR4-2666 MHz (128 GB per canister)
• 4+1 40 mm fan modules
• Board Management Controller (BMC)
• 2 x M.2 boot drives
• 2 x PCIe Gen3 x16 Low Profile and 1 x PCIe Gen3 x16 Standard
Height
• 2 x Dual-port 32 Gb FC cards (FC model)
• 1 x Dual-port 100 Gb Ethernet card (Ethernet model)
•1 x VGA port
• 2 x USB 3.0 ports
• 4 x 10 GbE (RJ45) ports
• 1 x 1 GbE (RJ45) port for system management that can be
controlled through IPMI
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Chapter 2
F2000 Component
Overviews
This chapter describes the individual components that make up the
F2000 system and includes the following sections:
• Front Components on page 10
• Rear Components on page 11
• System LEDs on page 13
• Canister Description on page 17
• Chassis Description on page 18
• Fan Module Description on page 19
• PIB Canister Description on page 22
• PSU Description on page 23
• Rack Rails Description on page 25
• SSD Assembly Description on page 26
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Chapter 2: F2000 Component Overviews
Front Components
Front Components
The front of the F2000 contains a drive bay that includes 24 Non-Volatile
Memory Express (NVMe) Solid State Drives (SSDs).
The SSDs are numbered from 1 to 24 going left-to-right. The drive slot
number is printed at the bottom of the chassis below the SSD drive
assemblies (see
Figure 6 F2000 Front
Components (Bezel Removed)
Figure 6).
ItemDescription
1Drive bay containing 24 NVMe SSDs
2Drive slot number at the bottom of the chassis
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Rear Components
The rear layout of the F2000 includes redundant power supply units
(PSUs) and redundant canisters.
The top canister and bottom canister contain the same input/output
ports and the same number of PCIe slots. However, the top canister is
inverted when compared to the bottom. This means that the port
labeling and PCIe slot numbering is in the reverse order (from left to
right) for the top canister.
See Figure 7 for more details about the component locations at the rear
of the system.
Note: Fibre Channel cards are shown installed in PCIe slots 1 and 2 in
ItemDescription
6Port 1, 10 GbE (RJ45)
7Port 2, 10 GbE (RJ45)
8VGA Port (DB-15)
9Port 3, 10 GbE (RJ45)
10Port 4, 10 GbE (RJ45)
11Dual USB 3.0 ports
Figure 7. For more details about interface cards, refer to
Interface Card Descriptions on page 20.
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System LEDs
System LEDs
This section provide details on the following system LEDs:
• Front Chassis LEDs
• Rear Canister LEDs on page 14
• PSU LED on page 15
• SSD LEDs on page 16
Front Chassis LEDs The front chassis LEDs are available on the left side of the system and
are visible with or without the Quantum bezel installed. See
an example of the LEDs with the bezel installed.
Figure 8 Front Chassis LEDs
(Quantum Bezel Installed)
Figure 8 for
ItemLEDAction
1Power• Off: Power off
• Green solid: Power on
2Identify• Off: Chassis is not being identified
• Blue: Chassis is being identified
3Fault• Off: No faults reported
• Amber (1Hz Blinking): Warning error
• Amber (4Hz Blinking): Critical error
• Amber solid: Fault conditions exist
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System LEDs
Rear Canister LEDsThe rear canister LEDs are available on both canisters. The bottom
canister LEDs are located on the lower-left of the canister. The top
canister is inverted, so the LEDs on that canister are located at the topright of the canister. See
the LEDs.
Figure 9 Rear Canister LEDs
Figure 9 for the locations and descriptions of
ItemLEDAction
1Power• Off: Canister power off
• Green solid: Canister power on
2Active• Off: Canister not active
• Green: Canister is active
3Fault• Amber solid: Fault conditions exist
• Off: Normal operation
4BBU StatusNot used
5BBU FaultNot used
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System LEDs
PSU LEDThe PSU Fault led is located in the same position on PSU A and PSU B.
See
Figure 10 for the location and description of the LED.
Figure 10 PSU LED Location
ItemLEDAction
1Power• Off: PSU power off
• Green solid: PSU power on
• Amber solid: Fault, failure, or AC
disconnection on PSU
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Chapter 2: F2000 Component Overviews
System LEDs
SSD LEDsThe SSD LEDs are located at the top of the SSD drive carrier. See
Figure 11 for the locations and descriptions of each LED.
Figure 11 SSD LED Locations
ItemLEDAction
1Drive Fault LEDAmber (solid or blinking): Degraded
drive reported. Replace the drive.
2Drive Link/Active• Off: No drive present
• Green: Drive present
• Green (Blinking): Drive active
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